what things are available. i'd like to be able to visualize and see, and it seems reasonable that some admin would have built a package during this 15 years that would help get useful Release information for the various repos

for a newbie, i think the big challenge is they get handed a bunch of rule-making capabilities, but they're not sure what kind of rule it is that they're trying to make, and they don't have an easy way to see metadata a given repository's Release is showing them

I've got an odd permissions problem - on two of my machines, I have installed fuse (the Spectrum emulator) locally. On my laptop, it works without issues, but on my desktop, if I try to use emulated Beta disks, the emulated Spectrum tells me "No disk". However, if (not a good idea of course), I run fuse as root, it works. Everything I have tried to track this down seems to produce so much output I can't actually spot what's wrong. Any advice?

krion, but that really smells of a newer debhelper needed than the package specifies (as someone already pointed out and which would be a bug in the package) ... I don't remember your pastes exactly... but in my memory it really was a problem building

hmm i think i've failed to read the apt-cache policy table correctly this whole time. but on the other hand, i don't seem to be able to formulate a rule that matches just the Debian Mozilla Team packages on experimental

but i'll moderate in here some. that said, ever since i've shown up on irc the #1 thing i see happen is people ask for help on something then they endure 10 rounds of people trying to tell them how whatever they're asking about isn't actually what they want to ask about and how they should instead do this other thing, which always seems like a huge cop out from people dodging what are frequently interesting nuanced questions

rektide: That is because people often fall victim to the xy problem and we simply start by trying to understand what a person *really* likes to achieve (so that we can suggest an alternative and better approach if such a thing exists)

krion, that is (most likely) a problem building, not packaging. The problem with packaging is that a file is missing... and - not sure if debian/tmp/usr/include/qt4/QtWebKit/QGraphicsWebView is a regular file or a directory... but most likely cause for it to be missing is that it failed to build some place above. .... actually... I also started wondering why you're doing that... it's not a lot of fun to build stuff like qt.... 2.3.4 is a very old version of

Kali Linux (http://www.kali.org/) is a security and penetration testing distribution from the creators of <backtrack>. It is based on Debian, but it is not Debian and is not supported in #debian. Seek help in #kali-linux on chat.freenode.net or http://forums.kali.org/ . Also ask me about <based on debian>.

Your distribution may be based on and have software in common with Debian, but it is not Debian. We don't and cannot know what changes were made by your distribution (compare http://futurist.se/gldt/). #debian only supports Debian and pure <blend>s; please respect our choice to volunteer here to help Debian users. Support for other distributions is off-topic on #debian, even if your own distro's channel is clueless or non-existent.

stevenm: I'm asking because it sounds like you're about to shoot yourself in the foot, and create a system that won't be supported by this channel. This has nothing to do with inflexiblity, it's a system that makes sure that your system is consistent and works. Of course it shouldn't be easy to circumvent that.

stevenm: You can always use dpkg-deb to manipule the package's meta-data, but I'm still asking what dependencies those are, because it'll likely end up in a unusable package, and potentially a broken system.

Hello, I'm having trouble getting dual monitors working after an upgrade to jessie - previously the system was working fine in wheezy. I have an GK106 [GeForce GTX 660] and am trying to use the DVI port for one monitor, and VGA for the other. If I only connect one monitor (either), it works, but not both together

if i need to guarantee newer versions of my deb package are always installed in sequence, ie no version-skipping, is that possible? could i set Depends: to the previous version of my package, eg: v1 <-depends- v2 <-depends- v3 <-depends- v4 such that installing v1, then v4 would automatically install v2 then v3 first?

snebel: if the file cannot be interpreted by the shell or is not an executable binary there isn't much harm in applying execute permissions to it, but why would you want to? there is of course a security implication, if for instance someone else has the ability to edit that file they might be able to make it into a workable executable script and do bad things..

snebel: let's say you are the owner of the file. The group that the file belongs to has multiple users. If you have writes allowed for the group, any of them could change the contents, but they couldn't make the file executable.

i guess this is the standard way to upgrade and works good on complex production systems? sorry if this is stupid question but i'm used to reinstall the whole system for new releases using provisioning tools...

snebel: Well, of course you prepare. If the systems are mission-critical, you test it on a staging system, first. I can only say that the last upgrades lenny→squeeze and squeeze→wheezy ran without problems on all my production systems. It's one of Debian's strengths :)

the problem i have is that many of my servers are still running on bare metal machines, so to reinstall we have to take a new one, cancel the old and this is in best case 1 month payment plus for each server, so if for the less important ones could i try to just upgrade...

I am installing a LAMP server on a VM, I started by installing webserver from tasksel, I should next install myql server and client. Wiki recommends to do this first, will it make any difference if I install mysql afterwards?

libdvdcss is a free software library for unscrambling <CSS>-encrypted DVDs, not to be confused with <DeCSS>. It is not distributed by Debian due to legal concerns. To acquire, see http://www.videolan.org/developers/libdvdcss.html for repository and APT signing key information, then install the libdvdcss2 package.

What's the difference between && and ; when running command in console? for example: "apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade" and "xset-dpms;xset s off". If no wrong I think that && is 'and or then' but ';' ?

I have another question. I have enough space in my machine (like 450 gb for /and /home) but I usually "apt-get clean && apt-get autoclean" after a full upgrade. Is that recommended for apt database, etc clean or these commands are only interesting for liberate some space in disc?

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Hey - just installed debian for first time, switching from Arch. minimal netinstall, wanted to set up my own desktop environment, etc. It seems to have installed, but constantly spams messages that look like [ xxxx.xxxxxx] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0 PMC - unhandled INTR 0x44000000

weird..I sent it completily.Thanks. It says "you can see is supported but I cant find it in the official repositories . lspci shows grepping its output "*-display UNCLAIMED description: 3D controller product: NVIDIA Corporation vendor: NVIDIA Corporation. nvidia-detect command obviously shows No NVIDIA GPU detected. Could you take me a hand? can I really enable 3d acceleration?"